Vade mecum, or, The necessary pocket companion
Edition: The 18th ed., carefully corr., with additions and improvements, to which is added, Interest in epitome, or, Tables in a shorter method than any yet published, from 1 pound to 10 millions, at 3, 4, 5, and 6 per cent.
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 8772; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed for R. Ware ... [et al.
Published: 1753
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Handbooks, vade-mecums; Early works to 1800; Ready-reckoners; English Almanacs; Interest; Tables
Other titles: Vade mecum.; Necessary pocket companion.
Notes: Preface signed : John Playford.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 08772.
Table of contents: title: Containing I. Sir Samuel Moreland's Perpetual almanack ...; title: II. Directions relating to the purchasing and measuring of land; title: III. Remarkable fairs in England ...; title: IV. The years of each King's reign from the Norman conquest to this time ...; title: V. Directions for every month in the year ...; title: VI. The reduction of weights, measures, and coins ...; title: VII. A table wherein any number of farthings, half-pence, pence or shillings, are ready cast up ...; title: VIII. The interest and rebate of money, the forbearance, discompt, and purchase of annuities; title: IX. The rates of post-letters ...; title: X. An account of the penny-post; title: XI. The principal roads in England; title: XII. The names of the counties, cities, and borough towns in Great-Britain ...; title: XIII. The usual and authorized rates or fares of coachmen, carmen, and watermen; title: XIV. Tables for casting up nobles, marks, and guineas.